Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
9th July 1729
Ann
Lewis
proceedingsdefend
of Christchurch
, was indicted for
stealing a silver Watch, value 5l. the Property of a Person unknown
, the 30th of June
last.
Elizabeth
Jolly
< no role >
depos'd, that as herself and the Prisoner were going along St. Paul's Churchyard the Night mention'd in the Indictment, they met with a Gentleman, who ask'd them to drink a Glass of Wine; that they went to the Salutation Tavern
, and that after they had been drinking some time, the Prisoner bid her make the best of her Way, telling her she had got the Watch; that the Prisoner did go away, but she staying, was stopp'd.
Thomas
Taylor
< no role >
depos'd that a Gentleman came to his House with the Prisoner and the Evidence, and having got a Constable, one
Walter
James
< no role >
put the Watch into his Hands, saying, that it was a stolen Watch, and that
Elizabeth
Jolly
< no role >
, or one of those Women had stolen it.
The Prosecutor did not Think fit to appear, and so there being no Evidence against the Prisoner but that of Elizabeth Jolly, the Jury acquitted her
.